FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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SAN SALVADOR—“I had to walk three kilometers (2 miles), take a pick-up truck and then two buses that were still operating to get to my job,” a co-worker told me. Comrades and thousands of other workers worked through their lunch time to be able to leave the factory earlier than usual because of the bus stoppage.
On Monday July 27, key points of the country, especially in the capital, were affected by the transit strike on some bus routes. Thousands of workers and students were kept waiting for collective transportation to take them to their jobs and schools.
In less than 20 hours, seven drivers from the routes that were not on strike were killed. In this, the most violent country in the world, every day it’s harder to live and every day there are more reasons to fight for communism.
In a week full of rumors of a coup, attacks against the government, and a fight between the FMLN and ARENA, this stoppage seems to be more a way for some of the bosses to pressure the government because they favor  the capitalists allied with ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America).
This was a stoppage organized by the bosses who own  a fleet of buses which has been left out of the transportation business (SITRAMSS, The Transportation System of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador). They said that the strike was in answer to the threats made by the gangs as a way to show their power.
These bosses really couldn’t care less about the lives of their workers. Murders of bus drivers and money collectors are common and they do nothing about it. Their agenda is political. A few months ago the same bosses had pressured the government about the transportation system implemented in the capital, since this benefited other bosses allied with ALBA. 
We have to understand that none of these bosses and their speeches represent or defend the working class. These are the positions of different sectors of the bourgeoisie in their fight for control of the economic power of the transportation business. The only position that the workers can take is to fight for the destruction of capitalism through the building of a communist society.
Transportation in communism will be collective and mass. The workers will get around in  air-conditioned buses. The transit system will be controlled by the working class itself, without hunger for profit.
The bosses take advantage of the workers’ pain to attack each other. Their struggle for economic power puts the lives of thousands of workers at risk. The stoppage, the violence and the attacks serve each group of bosses in their attack on each other. While ARENA, the spokesperson and defender of the traditional bourgeoisie, maintain their attacks against the FMLN government for its “inability and ineptitude to govern,” the FMLN, spokesperson and defender of the new bourgeoisie, justifies the problems they face with announcements and threats about a “coup.”
Everything has a class interest. The only strike that we can support is a workers’ strike against capitalism, that carries the ideals of communism and in which thousands of red flags can be seen waving in the air.

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